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New Baby, New Lives

Thursday January 19, 2006 12:00 PM EST

In Haiti, Jean surprised Pitt and Jolie with an Adam and Eve-inspired painting by artist Fritzner Chery depicting the couple with Maddox and Zahara. (The serpent symbolizes fertility; the owl good luck.) Photo by: SARA JAYE WEISS / INF
New Baby, New Lives| Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt
"You know that twinkle in his eye that everyone talks about? That twinkle is real, and it's because of Angelina," says a source on the set of his recently wrapped movie, The Assassination of Jesse James. "He is thoroughly enjoying his new role as a father." Adds his Jesse James costar Mary-Louise Parker: "He's already a dad, so I think he'll be wonderful [with the new baby]. He's a great guy, conscientious and kind. I'm happy for both of them."

How are the Jolie-Pitts making it work? By being surprisingly down-to-earth – if glamorous – parents. At home in California, Jolie drives Maddox to school herself; Pitt sometimes commutes to his production-company offices on his motorcycle. Apart from family outings to the beach and the local toy store, they tend to savor a homebody lifestyle.

That is, when they're actually home. In the Dominican Republic, where the couple spent three days before going to Haiti on Jan. 13, Pitt played Mr. Mom while Jolie filmed scenes for the upcoming drama The Good Shepherd.

At their Santo Domingo hotel, Pitt took Maddox and Zahara for joyrides in the glass elevators and let Maddox stroll a treadmill in the hotel gym, where their mutual affection was obvious. "Maddox is very talkative around [Pitt]," says an observer. "When he came into the health club, they were holding hands, and they were holding hands when they left."

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